HBO Developing Darren Aronofsky's Post-Apocalyptic Drama MaddAddam

HBO, home to based-on-books fare like Game of Thrones and the forthcoming The Leftovers, has put into development another literary adaptation — this one helmed by Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky, our sister site Deadline reports.

MaddAddam is based on three Margaret Atwood novels — Oryx and Crake, Year of the Flood and MaddAddam — and takes place in the mid-21st century, where corporations hold the power governments once wielded and genetic modification is the norm. The action takes place before and after a cataclysmic event that decimates the world’s population.

Aronofsky will executive-produce the drama through his Protozoa Pictures production company, alongside Brandi-Ann Milbrat and Ari Handel; Aronofsky also may direct.

So… the guy that gave us the brilliant (ie, horrific gut punch) “Requiem For a Dream” adaptation is doing one of the best dystopian trilogy written in years? I’m glad I wore my brown pants to work when I read this. Seriously folks, given how eerily prescient the books seemed when I read them, we are probably about to get a treat on par with “Game of Thrones” deliciousness. If it’s treated well. I hope Aronofsky directs– at the very least– the first book’s climax. Still though, I’m on Team Hype with this, for sure.